{"id":5099,"date":"2009-10-14T11:15:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T09:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5099"},"modified":"2009-10-14T11:15:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T09:15:13","slug":"is-this-the-kernel-of-the-peopels-bank-we-so-clearly-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/14\/is-this-the-kernel-of-the-peopels-bank-we-so-clearly-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the kernel of the Peopel&#8217;s Bank we so clearly need?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/827022fc-b837-11de-8ca9-00144feab49a.html\">FT.com \/ Companies \/ Banks - RBS eyes 300 branches sell-off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We desperately need a People's Bank in the UK - government owned, safe and guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>And we need a green investment bank.<\/p>\n<p>If RBS has to close 312 branches and pull out of SME banking on Brussels instruction then surely the state has a duty to relaunch this as a People's Bank, heading for mutual ownership?<\/p>\n<p>And of Brussels objects then it should give this activity to the Cooperative Bank. That needs this level of presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT.com \/ Companies \/ Banks &#8211; RBS eyes 300 branches sell-off. We desperately need a People&#8217;s Bank in the UK &#8211; government owned, safe and<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/14\/is-this-the-kernel-of-the-peopels-bank-we-so-clearly-need\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}